Ranveer Singh Talks Watching ‘Nymphomaniac 1 & 2’ To Prepare For ‘Padmaavat’ Sultan Role, Couching Cast Experiences, Jokingly Floats James Bond Ambitions – Marrakech
deadline.comRanveer Singh took to the stage at the Marrakech International Film Festival on Saturday to discuss his 12-year trajectory from an unknown Mumbai outsider to one of Bollywood’s most famous and best-paid actors.
Speaking in an In Conversation event, the actor revealed he was so green about the mechanics of shooting a feature film when he first arrived on the set of his 2010 breakthrough romantic comedy Band Baaja Baaraat he had never seen a boom mike before. “My co-actor, the beautiful Anushka Sharma had done one feature and she held my hand through that entire process.
I was so basic that in a talking scene on the first day, there was a person standing there holding the boom mike, and I’m looking at Anushka, saying “Is this guy going to stand there like that the whole time?’,” he recalled. “When I see this movie now, I don’t know how I pulled it off with that lack of experience… It’s like you know, when Eminem says, ‘You’ve got one shot’,” continued the actor, then breaking into a rendition of the U.S.
rapper’s 2002 track Losing Yourself. “It was sink or swim, do or die.” Some 12 years on, Singh’s filmography encompasses more than 20 feature credits including costume drama Bajirao Mastani, Paris-set romance Befikre, controversial historical romance Padmaavat, goofy, corrupt cop comedy Simmba, cricket drama 83 and street rapper, coming-of-age tale Gully Boy.
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